Trump Data Guru 'Unaware Of Any Russian Involvement' In His Operations

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JULY 14, 2017 10:00 AM

The director of the Trump campaign’s digital operation on Friday morning said he was “unaware of any Russian involvement” in the campaign’s digital and data operations in 2016.

Brad Parscale’s statement came after the House Intelligence Committee requested to interview him, which he said he agreed to do. McClatchy reported Thursday that federal and congressional investigators were looking into whether the campaign’s digital team coordinated with Russia to disseminate fake news and target voters in swing states, down to certain key districts.

The investigators were specifically looking at Jared Kushner, who played a large role in the campaign’s digital operations, McClatchy reported.

Read Parscale’s statement below:

Link to tweet

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/brad-parscale-unaware-russia-digital-operations

[C_U_L8R]

1. Uh-huh. Prepare for a grilling.

[jpak]

2. They are all liars - i don't believe this for a nanosecond

nope

[Squinch]

3. And Trump(R)Jr. was unaware that he had colluded till he wasn't, Trump(R) was unaware

that he knew of the collusion till he wasn't, Kushner was unaware that he knew anyone who didn't live in the NY tristate area till he remembered about his hundred foreign friends and his play dates with them...

Yeah. I give it 48 hours till this is proven untrue.

[mac56]

4. Yeah!

[VermontKevin]

5. I believe him when he says he can't read Cyrillic. /s

[dalton99a]

6. Another big liar.

[Botany]

7. How about the computer server in Trump's HQ that wasl inked back to the Ukraine bank?

BTW Camabridge Analytica has some Russia links too.

[hedda_foil]

13. I wonder if the Trump Tower/Alfabank/Russia server was set up in place of the Russian Embassy one

When they couldn't use the Russian Embassy's direct line to the Kremlin, the Alfabank setup might have been the Russian preferred alternative. What do you think?

[greymattermom]

8. Aware is a strange word to use

and it must mean something to lawyers. If someone speaks to you in the presence of witnesses or recordings, can you say you were unaware? If someone sends you emails that you respond to, can you say you were unaware? If you sign a document, you can't say you were unaware of its contents. How much legal protection do you get by saying "unaware"?

[Yavin4]

10. Indeed, he could have enabled the crime to happen without being aware of it happening.

Like a security guard that leaves the gate open for the robbers, but is unaware of any robbery taking place.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. "Our teams from.....Cambridge Analytica"

and that's all one needs to know. THAT was your collusion.

[Leith]

12. Exactly!

How can someone in IT databases NOT be aware that CA is hip deep in Moscow dirt?

[sfwriter]

14. Teed Jared up, didn't he.

[matt819]

11. Quibble, quibble

The report I read said the counterintelligence guy was a Russian-American. That a Russian intelligence officer has dual citizenship seems odd. But I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this Parscale guy is using the American part of that dual citizenship to claim that there was no Russian involvement. Odd, though, that Da and Nyet didn't register with him.